microbes

The oil that wasn't dissolved by chemical dispersants or microbes fell to the bottom of the ocean, out of sight to the public.

没有被化学分解剂或微生物分解的石油会沉到洋底，从公众视线中完全消失。

Critics assert that this flow of genes helps to undermine any concept of species in microbes.

批评者认为这类基因流动无益于微生物的物种观念。

As these once-obese humans lost weight over the course of a year, their mix of gut microbes changed to reflect their new, svelte status.

在这一年中，这些曾经肥胖的人的体重逐渐减轻，他们的肠道微生物也发生了改变以反映其日渐苗条的身材。

Collectivist societies tend to pop up in parts of the world, especially around the equator, with plenty of disease-causing microbes.

集体主义社会通常会在世界上某些地方，特别是在赤道周围出现。这些地方具有许多导致疾病出现的微生物。

It is no longer an either-or question of whether the first microbes arose on Earth or arrived from space.

这已不再是「最初的微生物要不是发源于地球，就是来自外太空」这种非此即彼的问题。

But Mark Stoneking wasn't all that interested in human health when he decided to chase down the microbes in spit.

当马克（MarkStoneking）决定研究人唾液内的细菌时，他对人体健康不是很感兴趣。

He looked at it closely, and saw that microbes around the mould had been killed.

仔细观察后他发现，霉菌周边的微生物都被杀死了。

Specifically, he said, the structures look like bacterial biofilm, a slimy substance that the microbes often form.

具体而言，这一结构看上去像是细菌生物被膜，一种微生物经常形成的粘状物质。

She believes the Mars sample could be just as vulnerable to Earthly microbes as people might be to any Martian germs.

她相信火星细菌对人类的危害性，将只是像接触地球上的细菌一样。

This process is called chemosynthesis, and a lot of different microbes can do it, microbes living in rocks and soils all over the world.

这个过程叫做化能合成，并且很多不同的微生物都能利用这种能源，比如世界各地生活在岩石和土壤中的微生物。

Underlying their work, however, was no clear concept of what it meant for microbes to belong to a species.

然而，这些工作准则，并没有清楚提供微生物怎样才算做物种的观念。

This turned out to be because a second set of microbes, within the whey itself, was absorbing them.

其原因被证明是由于乳清内部的另一些微生物吸收了部分自由电子。

But it's not easy to produce isobutanol with the help of microbes like the ones that ferment those sugars into ethanol.

但是，异丁醇并不能像乙醇那样可以由微生物发酵糖分轻易制得。

Baumgartner. And, she said, baths don't splash microbes into the air as much as showers, which blast them into easily inhaled aerosol form.

Baumgartner说，像阵雨洗澡不会把微生物溅到空气中，而冲击它们形成气雾就轻易被吸进。

Head to the science lab and take a seat at the microscope, through which you'll see these common microbes as you never saw them in class!

头部的科学实验室，并采取议席上镜，通过它你会看到这些常见的微生物如你从来没有看到他们在课堂上！

She and her colleagues then began to subject the microbes to sophisticated analyses to see if arsenic had been utilized by the bacteria.

于是，她和她的同事们紧锣密鼓地展开实验将分离出的细菌进行了各种复杂的分析，看砷是否被细菌利用了。

Augustine, Fla. , company sells ties treated with a stain-resistant coating that the company says thwarts microbes.

该公司出售涂有防污层的领带，并表示这种防污层可以阻挡微生物。

Trying to use all of the energy produced by bacterial metabolism wouldn't leave enough for the microbes to grow, reproduce, and thrive.

如果企图利用细菌代谢所产生的全部能量，那么所剩能量就不足以使细菌发育、繁殖并茁壮成长。

Some microbes like nothing better than to be nestled in a toxic sludge of heavy metals like zinc, arsenic and cadmium.

对于一些微生物而言，没有什么比生活在充满了锌、砷和镉之类的重金属的有毒淤泥中更加惬意的。

It may involve a rather mundane announcement by NASA of the discovery of primitive extraterrestrial life in the form of microbes.

可能是由NASA很正常地来宣布发现了原始外星生物的微生物形式（这个已经间接承认了）；